Not with the amount of subscribers it has, it would be really really stupid. If sub numbers dropped to like 2 million or something, then maybe, but it's gonna take a really long time before that happens.

Someday maybe. Not while they're making as much money with it as they are now though.

Plenty of MMO's are adopting F2P and it's probably had some effect on WoW but the game is still a license to print money for Blizzard.

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Only when the number of subscribers drops below 200.000, which will never happen

Originally Posted by Furkel

There's always, ALWAYS a "huge uproar" about anything Blizz does, usually from people who either don't entirely understand the thing they're complaining about, or refuse to acknowledge that most players are perfectly okay with the current state of affairs. Whenever people complain that they don't listen to feedback it mostly means "they don't listen to ME ME ME".

Also to answer the question, it eventually will once the popularity goes below 2 or 3 million, not all games last forever

That could very well be something that tanks them down to under 1M subs though. F2P is a terrible idea for a game so firmly established and deeply rooted. People will quit before they pay money to raid, and then more to pvp, and then even more to pickup gear to do either, when it's been covered by a reasonable sub, along with everything else in the game for years.